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🦋 Dovetails cont.

This evening I glued up the frame for a section of the wall unit I am building -- I described cutting the dovetails in my previous post. The end result is pretty good (if slightly off square); but the glueing-up process can only be described as a failure.

The plan was as follows:

1. Lay the right-hand side board on the bench top, outer face down.
2. Put (Elmer's white) glue on the right-hand pins of the top and bottom boards, and join them to the side board.
3. Slide the backing boards into the grooves cut in the top and bottom boards.
4. Put glue on the left-hand pins of the top and bottom boards, and join the left-hand side board to them.

Straightforward enough -- what I didn't realize was I needed something to hold the top and bottom boards close to each other as I was sliding in the backing boards... I see now that what I should have done, after about the first three backing boards were in place, was fix a clamp to hold everything in place. (I think but am not sure, that my longest bar clamp would be just about long enough to do the job.) Instead, when the backing boards started falling out, I ran upstairs and started screaming bloody murder for Ellen to come help me hold boards in place. And she did, and everything came out all right in the end, except I wish I could keep my head on straight when a problem comes up.

posted evening of Thursday, December 30th, 2004
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